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atwt l @da t ADAM 4BAIERLE, or cHIcAco, IL'LINoIs. Latas Patent No. 85,161, maar Daemba' 22,1868. l

To all whom it conce/rh:l

Be'it known that I, ADAM BAIERLE, ofthe city of Chicago, in the county ofV Cook, and State of Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Floors for Ice-Houses, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebein'g had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciicaticn, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art -to construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it,

Figure Iis the elevation, and

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the door.

The floors generally used in ice-houses for brewers, butchers, and others, are made horizontahand are covered with a ooring consisting of sheets of metal jointed by solder. The disadvantages of suchfloors are that they do not give enough of cooling-surface to the cellars or chambers situated under them, and that the solder never being perfect, the floorsv constantly leak.

The-object of this invention is to obviate those disadvantages', and

Its nature consists in a floor made of trusses and lateral braces, so combined as to form a broken floor, con-y sisting of several surfaces sloping towards each other. By such'an arrangement a considerable increase in the cooling-surface is gained, and gutters are `obtained in which water from the melting ice is accumulated, and is continually conveyed to and discharged through the proper pipes. The gutters being carefully made, there is no leakage in the floor.

A A are double walls, (if it is a wooden struoture,.) dlled with bark, in the usual manner.

The floor consists of trusses, B B, (used instead of `joists,) and braces, F F. Each truss, B, is made of achord, G, and truss-beams, D D, of the size of twelve inches by four inches, or more or less, bolted together at the ends, and the chord supported in the middle by an iron rod, E.

To strengthen the'truss, boards may be nailed slantingly to the chord and beams on each side of the truss, the-boards on one side running in directions opposite to those of the other side.

Braces, F F, of a size of ten inches by Atwo inches,` more orless, are secured to the trusses and to the studs of the frame, or anchored to the wall, if this is Iliade of masonry, forming an angle with the truss-beams of about one hundred andeight degrees, more or less.

The braces are disposed in pairs, one pair being placed at each end ofthe truss.

Wooden strips, H H, are laid across and secured to the braces andtruss-beams, and the flooring, K, con` sisting of metallic sheets, is secured tothe strips H.A

The metallic sheets of the ooring are so jointed that the edge of the .upper sheet overlaps the edge of the lower sheet,so that the water from the melting ice can easily run down the sloping surfaces without being'arrested by the joints.

The angles formed by the truss-beams and braces form gutters', L L, to which a suticient fall is given,

1. Aiioor for ice-houses, coveringastore-room, when said floor is'made of trusses and lateral braces in the manner herein described, so as to form a seriesof iny. clined surfaces, withv gutters atvtheir point of junction.

substantially as and for the purpose 4set forth.

2. In combination with the above, the flooring, of metallic sheets, arranged substantially as herein described and specified.

. ADAM BAIERLE. Witnesses: J. B. TURCHIN,

N. `K.v KROEBER. 

